Re: Socket options

Kalpesh Shah (kalpesh@cs.utexas.edu)
Thu, 16 Aug 2001 21:15:13 -0500 (CDT)


I am running a linux 2.4.6 kernel...any suggestions for that??

kalpesh

On 16 Aug 2001, Philippe Troin wrote:

> Kalpesh Shah <kalpesh@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
>
> > I would like to be CC'ed any answers/comments to my question.
> >
> > are /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem and /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem the socket
> > Buffer (receive and send respectively) Sizes in the linux kernel.
> >
> > If yes then how come when I try to set these buffer sizes by using the
> > SO_RCVBUFF and SO_SNDBUFF variables it automatically multiplies the values
> > by 2 ????
>
> To remain BSD-compatible.
>
> There was a thread about this on lkml one week ago. Check the
> archives.
>

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